The Park Ridge Public Library (IL) offers Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2, and PS3 games for checkout in the young adult department. We carry ratings from E - Teen. The games can be checked out by Park Ridge card holders only and have a loan period of 3 weeks. A maximum of 2 games can be checked out per library card. The library currently has about 270 titles. In summer of 2007, an E-rated children's department collection was established with GameCube, Wii, PS 2, and PS3 games. We also have plans to being an video game collectiong geared toward adults that will offer Mature games.

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The Park Ridge Public Library (IL) offers Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2, and PS3 games for checkout in the young adult department. We carry ratings from E - Teen. The games can be checked out by Park Ridge card holders only and have a loan period of 3 weeks. A maximum of 2 games can be checked out per library card. The library currently has about 270 titles. In summer of 2007, an E-rated children's department collection was established with GameCube, Wii, PS 2, and PS3 games. We also have plans to begin a video game collection geared toward adults that will offer Mature games.

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The Yorba Linda Public Library (CA) offers PC, PlayStation2, and Nintendo Wii games for free checkout. The games can be checked out by for a loan period of 3 weeks, are reservable and renewable up to 2 times as long as noone has placed a hold on the game. A maximum of 10 games can be checked out per card. The library currently has about 300 titles.

The Park Ridge Public Library (IL) offers Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, PS2, and PS3 games for checkout in the young adult department. We carry ratings from E - Teen. The games can be checked out by Park Ridge card holders only and have a loan period of 3 weeks. A maximum of 2 games can be checked out per library card. The library currently has about 270 titles. In summer of 2007, an E-rated children's department collection was established with GameCube, Wii, PS 2, and PS3 games. We also have plans to begin a video game collection geared toward adults that will offer Mature games.

The WMA Library is currently working with the parent of a student to collect and house at least 25 board games. We will house the games in the library and lend them to students for library use. Boarding students may take the games back to their rooms for a 1-night loan. We're trying to figure out how to make sure that students return games with all of their pieces---without asking staff to count pieces every time a game comes back. We've hosted several very popular game nights here at the library as well.

Baltimore County Public Library (Md.) currently offers over 2000 videogames at 17 branches for 7-day circulation, with a limit of 2 games per checkout. It was decided to catalog the E and E10+ games in the kids collection, and the T games are in the adult collection. The platforms supported are Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, and Nintendo Wii and Nintendo GameCube. Portables have been determined to be too unwieldy for circulation at this time. Limited programming at some branches has included Runescape and GameCube tournaments.

Bloomington Public Library now offers video games for check out. We have current and classic titles for X-Box, Playstation 2, or GameCube systems. You can take up to two games at a time and keep them for one week. If the game you want is checked out, be sure to place a hold on the title and we will set it aside for you when it comes back. If you want to play the games you have for another whole week, just renew them if no one else has requested them. Consider this your warm-up for Game Fest in July...Don't be shy! Game on, gamers!

Library: Guilderland Public Library
Purchased from EB Games, Wal Mart, Best Buy. Donations accepted.
Ratings: E - T
Contact: Trevor Oakley
As of February 2, 2007, the Guilderland Public Library in Guilderland, NY, circulates console games. The library is launching a circulating collection of 102 games for the following platforms: Playstation 2 (PS2), XboX, Xbox 360, Nintendo Gamecube (GCN), and the Nintendo Wii. In the future, I would also like to support handheld platforms and the Playstation 3 (PS3). All games are loaned for free on a first-come, first-served basis for seven days. The library's Teen Advisory Committee will be organizing and planning gaming events after its February 2007 meetings!

Rochester Hills Public Library offers games for Xbox 360, Xbox, PS2, PS3, Gamecube, Wii, PSP, Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS for checkout. The games circulate for 1 week, and can be renewed if no one is waiting for them. You can place holds on the games and the library has more than 1,500 games with more than 850 unique titles in this growing collection. For detailed information about starting your own circulating video game collection including statistics, a sample press release, arguments for starting a collection, teen testimonials and information on security issues go to 4librarians For reviews from teen gamers in the community check out Animeted.org!

The Park Forest Public Library offers games for Xbox, XBox 360, PS2, and Gamecube for checkout. The games circulate for 1 week and cannot be renewed. Holds cannot be placed unless you are a Park Forest or Olympia Fields patron for the new titles. Older titles are available for ciruclation to other MLS libraries. The library has about 90 titles in this growing collection.

The University of Illinois Undergraduate Library started collecting video games in Spring 2006. We are looking to support student interests, curricular and teaching needs, as well as the research of many scholars on campus. We are starting with new and best selling games for platforms like Playstation 2, GameCube, XBox, and XBox 360. We also plan to collect portable games (Nintendo DS, PSP, etc.) and vintage games as well.

I am doing video game selection for the Mobile Public Library system in Mobile Alabama. We are currently putting together a start-up collection of console games (X Box and Playstation 2) for our Main and West Regional libraries. I am hoping librarians who are readers of this wiki might be able to give some guidance in the area of reviews and purchasing.

We are currently using these sources for evaluative reviews: PC Gamer Magazine, Game Informer, Official X Box Magazine, Playstation Magazine, Sound and Vision, Electronic Gaming Monthly. Given their target audience these are all heavily weighted towards titles rated for Teen or Mature with less coverage of E titles for Everyone and very little coverage of materials geared for children. Are there websites that are authoritative for reviews that we might use to supplement these print magazines? Also, do you know of print or web-based sources that review games for children (console, not PC)? Are there any review sources (for either children or adult games) which review in advance of release?

As regards purchasing, which vendor(s)are you using? In your experience, which provide the best discount and fill rate?

We are circulating Nintendo Gamecube, Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation2. Playstation2 is by far our most popular platform. These games are setup to circulate just as DVDs. They check out for one week and are not renewable. We also have been circulating PC games for a long time now. They are setup to circulate just as CDs which checkout for three weeks and are renewable.

We select titles from Xbox Platinum Hits, PS2 Greatest Hits, and Gamecube Player's Choice. We also buy games based on user ratings that are within our price guideline of basically under $25.00 per title. New releases are available for in-house play at our Young Adult Media Bar.

Since console game circulation is new for us, we consider it a demonstration project and thus have a limited budget until it is a proven success. We are evaluating customer response and request, overdue and billed items, as well as how often items are damaged or needing repair. Since the beginning this project in December, 2005, our customer response has been fantastic. We have doubled our collection twice during that time.

We currently hold about 300 games for circulation.

Library: Oakland Public Library
Purchased From: Baker & Taylor, Best Buy, and EB Games
Ratings: E-T
Contact: Susy Moorhead
We are currently circulating Sony PlayStation 2 games. We decided on PS2 as it is the most popular platform with our teen patrons. Xbox is a close second and some branches of Oakland Public Library (OPL) plan to purchase Xbox games for their collections soon. The games check out for one week only without renewals or holds. Fines are $1 a day. We have been circulating games since Summer 2006.
We choose which games to buy through patron requests and reviews online and in print review sources.
We do plan to purchase consoles for gaming programs in the future.
We currently circulate a little over 100 games at 14 branches.

We're an urban public library. We circulate games for the PS2, Xbox, PSP and Nintendo DS. The games are shelved in the teen collection. The games checkout for one week, renewals are allowed if holds are not present. We're a municipal library with no branches. We currently circulate over 90 games.

Library: Simon Fraser University
Purchased From: Amazon.ca and various other retailers
Ratings: all
Contact: Natalie Gick
The Games Collection and Room at the SFU-Surrey Library are to support teaching, learning, and research by SFU faculty, staff and students. The collection currently holds about 350 titles.

Any current SFU student, faculty, or staff member may borrow console (not PC) games for 3 days. PC games are loaned out just for the day (not overnight).

The Games Room is equiped with Arcade Legends, Nintendo GameCube, Playstation 2, Super Nintendo, XBox and XBox 360 consoles, and controllers can be borrowed from the Loans Desk. GameBoy Advanced and Nintendo DS consoles can be borrowed from the Loans Desk. Wii console coming soon. More information here.

Library: University of Oregon
Purchased From: UO Bookstore - computer section, Amazon.com and others as needed
Ratings: all
Contact: Annie Zeidman-Karpinski
We are in the process of developing a circulating collection with the following hardware: 360, Nintendo DS, Playstation3, Xbox, and Wii.

The Decatur Public Library (IL) presently circulates GameCube, Playstation2, and Xbox games, which are shelved in the young adult area. Since the collectioon is relatively new, patrons are restricted to checking out one game per card for two weeks. We do not fill requests for our games from other libraries in our consortium, which is in line with the reciprocal borrowing agreement since other libraries in the system to not carry this format.

Initial software will include popular titles. Check back for more information.

The Greater Victoria Public Library is a 9-branch system serving almost 300,000 residents in 10 municipalities in the Greater Victoria region in British Columbia, Canada. Our pilot circulating collection has about 100 games, including PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360 and wii. The loan period is 7 days, 2 per card, holds permitted, no renewals, $1.50/day if overdue. The ratings are Everyone, Everyone 10+ and Teen and all games are located in the Teen area. We also have gaming stations with pre-loaded PC games for teens to play in the library. Programming is also planned.